Mentally disabled people, once left to wither away in institutions, are now doing things previously thought impossible. Thanks to Swedish organizations and Latvian mothers these people are now learning life skills at a special day care center as Katya Cengel reports. After seeing a TV show on handicapped people in Latvia, Anne Marie Sjosvard left Sweden. The mother of a handicapped daughter who had died, Sjosvard told her husband she wanted to go somewhere far away and help out. In 1992, while distributing equipment for the handicapped in Latvia, Sjosvard met Biruta Grave, chairwoman of 'Ru...
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